Ann Bartow

@annbartow.bsky.social

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Big fan of free speech and academic freedom. Strongly recommend avoiding UNH Franklin Pierce Law until change to less toxic leadership and more positive student treatment. She/her or gender neutral pronouns.

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Amanda Tepski @tepski.tech · 9h

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say

www.nytimes.com

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Mechele Dickerson @mecheledickerson.bsky.social · 10h

I note in this piece (& explain in more detail in my forthcoming book) that young adults are anxious & angry because they are struggling financially. Many wonder whether they will ever become (much less remain) middle class. businessinsider.com/millennial-e... via
@businessinsider.com

Why millennials don't feel richer than boomers — even though they are

Rich millennials are doing OK, but they feel terrible about their finances and the economy. They're comparing themselves to peers and boomer parents.

businessinsider.com

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FOX8 WGHP @myfox8.com · 13h

Trump says he’d ‘rather not’ extend Affordable Care Act subsidies

President Trump on Tuesday said he would prefer not to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, but acknowledged it may be necessary to reach an agreement…

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 16h

New: A federal judge in California ruled that Trump's administration cannot impose mandatory detention on thousands of migrants held by U.S. immigration authorities nationally without first giving them an opportunity to seek release on bond. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 19h

Cowlitz comedian Joey Clift has a new animated short–Pow! follows a young Native kid at a bustling intertribal powwow. The short includes lessons in Native activism and even uses actual audio from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Watch it here:

Pow!

Pow! is an animated short film about Jake, a young Native American kid scrambling to charge his dying video game console at a bustling Coastal Salish intertribal powwow, where he learns that loving…

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Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics) @chrisbecke.bsky.social · 1d

Among my favorites:

Twitter exchange:
Stephen King (@StephenKing)
No, coronavirus is NOT like THE STAND.
It's not anywhere near as serious. It's eminently survivable. Keep calm and take all reasonable precautions.

Sporty Ball Fan (@StevieMichaelD1)
Replying to @StephenKing
And how the hell would you know?!
Did you even read that book?

6:37 PM 3/8/20

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.

This is today's actual house editorial.

Opinion
Editorial Board
Thankful for paper towels

Holiday travelers deserve better than inadequate and unsanitary hand dryers.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

we're going to win

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE

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Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 1d

“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

"I asked for their names. They didn't give me their full names," Hestmark recalled of the agents. "They didn't show me their badge numbers. They didn't remove their masks. They simply said, 'We have a warrant for his arrest, and they handed me a QR code, and they put my husband in handcuffs. And they took him and said I couldn't follow."
"She was just stunned," Paul said. "She kept asking what was wrong, what did we do? We'd done everything right."
"We kept asking them if there was something we could do, if there was any way we could keep her from being separated from the family," he continued.
We’re just trying to figure out what's happening, and they're just telling us, I'm sorry. We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."|
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"I had to take my baby, our baby, from his crying mother's arms," Paul said.
"We were completely shocked, and I feel like we were tricked," Hestmark said. "We went through every possible legal and appropriate channel. We followed the advice of our lawyer. We were told that
our case was straight forward."
"He just wanted to be part of this country and for us to start our future together. And he wanted to do it…

"Tom isn't in the system. I can't find him," Hestmark said. "I can't call him. I can't put money into his account. The lawyer doesn't know how to proceed because he hasn't been charged with anything."
Both said their spouses were able to call them Thursday night, and they believed they were still being held in the basement of the federal building as of Friday afternoon.
"She said that she was scared. She was anxious, missed her baby. She just wants to come home," Paul said. "She said the agents themselves were in the detention down in the basement of the federal building, saying, What are we doing here? These aren't the sort of people were supposed to be arresting.”
"They hadn't given him anything to eat or any information," Hestmark said. "They gave him a mat and a foil blanket to sleep on."
As she was detailing his arrest Friday afternoon, Bilger called Hestmark again from detention. She said he told her they had moved him to the Otay Mesa Detention Center and back but he hadn't slept and still hadn't been processed.
"My wife's alone and terrified," Paul said. "My baby doesn't have his mom to hold him. I can't work right…

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter

U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.

www.cnbc.com

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 1d

If the admin was confident these boat strikes were legal, they wouldn’t be sidelining all their lawyers.

Instead, they’re demanding unlawful U.S. military strikes and pushing the U.S. into a reckless and open-ended conflict.

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 1d

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

“To be honest,” Etoria added, “it helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains—that loneliness, that disconnect, that sense of loss.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison

The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.

www.newyorker.com

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

“Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries” electionlawblog.org?p=153200

"Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries" #ELB

Axios: Democratic politicians and activists are quietly lobbying to upend the way the party picks its presidential nominee by urging the use of ranked-choice voting. Driving the news: Democratic Natio...

electionlawblog.org

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Kelly Roskam @kellyewroskam.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic op-ed from the @jhucgvs.bsky.social's co-director @joshhorwitz.bsky.social calling on the Virginia General Assembly to take advantage of the #GVP majority and enact more life-saving laws. www.pilotonline.com/2025/11/22/c...

Column: Seize this moment to tackle gun violence with real solutions

With a new governor and gun violence prevention champions in the General Assembly, now is the time for action, Johns Hopkins researcher Josh Horwitz writes in a guest column.

www.pilotonline.com

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

“X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts” electionlawblog.org?p=153204

"X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts" #ELB

NYT: X launched a feature over the weekend that displays users’ locations, renewing scrutiny of the provenance of many accounts, including those that post frequently about American politics. The new f...

electionlawblog.org

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Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 2d

The Epstein/Summers emails made last week especially tough week for some of us - a reminder that serial offenders only survive within an enabling culture. @rlswrites.bsky.social gets it. Plse read & share her powerful piece @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up

www.nytimes.com

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.

She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.

“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...

A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.

thebarbedwire.com

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 2d

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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 2d

All the Neo-Confederate and Confederate revisionist history accounts turned out be Serbs. lol. lmao even.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 2d

Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

"Second, the Mayor-elect hasn’t made any statements, written or verbalized, public or private, regarding Arabic numerals. Because it would be silly. You know why? We already use Arabic numerals every day. All of us."

Sigh... We Already Teach Arabic Numerals

Why are they like this?

charlotteclymer.substack.com

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 2d

The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org

The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof

More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are high...

www.gavi.org

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Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social · 2d

In more AI bubble news, major insurers are declining to insure risks from AI chatbots & agents, saying AI models are too unpredictable & error-prone with no one clearly liable when things go wrong. Firms & universities better consider this in their rush to adopt AI.
www.ft.com/content/abfe...

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts

AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots

www.ft.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

bring back shame...and consequences

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report

www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...

'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report

Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...

www.rawstory.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Too late. Marco Rubio already spilled the truth. The so called peace plan was Russia’s wish list, not something the US drafted. He’s trying to walk it back but the damage is done.

He’s scrambling.